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Posted by dpb on November 1, 2007, 10:05 am
DerbyDad03 wrote:
> On Oct 31, 9:34 pm, cle...@nortelnetworks.com (Chris Lewis) wrote:
>>
>>> RickH wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> I've been looking for a 40F degree thermostat for 10 years now, let me
>>>> know if you find one. ...
>>> I posted a link to one at Grainger yesterday in response to haller's
>>> posting.
>> The other poster's suggestion of taking a good look at a
>> few makes of line-voltage thermostats for electric heat is
>> a good one.
>>
>> Over thirty years ago, we found that some thermostats start
>> at around 50F with an offswitch, and others don't have an
>> offswitch, and start around 36F.
>>
>> We wanted the 36F ones to keep a cottage just above freezing.
>> --
>> Chris Lewis,
>>
>> Age and Treachery will Triumph over Youth and Skill
>> It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.
>
> In reading some of the questions that get sent to the Home Repair
> section of our local newspaper, I think I recall something about
> issues with condensation if the temperature is kept below some magic
> number (50?).
>
> You know..."I'm going to Florida for 3 months. What's the lowest I can
> set my thermostat to?"
>
> I don't recall that the answers started with a "3". I'm sure it was
> much higher - and it wasn't related to the minimum allowed by the
> thermostat. It was related to actual environmental factors.
>
> Can anybody concur with what I think I remember?
Would depend on the structure and ambient conditions of the location
more than just the temperature as to what would/wouldn't be a problem.
Here (SW KS) there's no problem from a condensation standpoint in a
totally unheated shop area. In a humid area, not so much.
Don't believe there's a single right answer (in fact I'm sure there's
not) for all situations, but can see something like 50F being ok as a
generic answer that would cover most situations that a generic column of
the sort would respond with. That's not the same thing as what any
individual shop could use a safe minimum by any stretch.
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